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Scottrospective: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together! or Days of Summer

Hello all you happy scottaholics! Welcome back to those of you who’ve read the rest of this retrospective and welcome to those of you just joining us. This is the Scottrospective, my look at all 6 volumes of Scott Pilgrim, the game and the movie. It’s all the video game refrenes, slice of life story telling and boob punches you can handle!

It’s been three months since I left off with “The Infinite Sadness” , and while I intended to cover this one for Valentine’s Day, my schedule got away from me and with March being full up, this ended taking till April

I”m not too put off by it though as the hiatus between these two reviews is fitting for this one both in story and out. In story there’s a couple month time skip between books, while out.. this book got delayed a few times.

This is notable to me at least because this was the first volume of the series I bought when it came out. As i’ve brought up before I came into the series via the Free Comic Book Day Issue and the second and third volumes, picking one up later. I still have my original copies despite no longer really needing them thanks to having the color editions in general. Always will provided something dosne’t happen to them. So this was my first instalment that I got to read fresh and got to wait for and be hyped about and i’d saved enough money that I was able to pre-order it. So the experince of waiting and waiting for the book only to keep seeing it slide back is vivid in my mind as is the frustration I felt having the one thing I COULD NOT WAIT FOR, keep going further and further back.

So with this long wait and the fact I bought this one when it came out, as I would for the next two which didn’t get delayed thank god, this volume naturally means a lot for me. When I wrote Scott Pilgrim fanfiction, this volume’s status quo is what I based it on. It was the coolest to me and the one I loved to reread the most. It has the most contained story, the most character growth at the time, and the best art due to Bryan’s style having finally hit it’s stride. Not that the art for volumes 1-3 is bad mind you, but it’s very clear his style was changing and shaping into what it is now with each one and while it’d change a bit more, this volume is where the style and quality everyone thinks of when they think of this series and the kind you see on various art done from it comes from.

So as you can tell i’m excited for this one. Before we get started there WERE two shorter comics released between this one both for Free Comic Book day, the first of which, Free Scott Pilgrim, is the reason I got into the series and the second, the Wonderful World of Kim Pine .. was both delightful and sets up Kim moving in with Hollie for this volume. Originally I intended to cover these in this review.. but I realized they wouldn’t of helped the pacing and this review is going to be way longer than my standard as is.

So instead I came up with the compromise. I did review them.. but as bonus reviews on my patreon. For just one buck a month you can read them and help me reach my stretch goals which now include reviews of Lost at Sea, Seconds and SnotGirl, aka Bryan’s OTHER comics. You can find my patreon THROUGH THIS LINK HERE if your intrested in the exclusives or helping me reach my reviews. I also intend to do an exclusive of Monica Beetle, a short comic Bryan did starring Scott’s dad in the 70s at some point so keep your eyes peeled for that, as well as the three strips he did of Style, the comic that gave us the prototypes for Lisa and Kim.

I will talk about their connections and setups for this volume briefly: FSP sets up the next ex as a ninja, with Roxy having a bunch of posters come to live and pummel our boy, while Wonderful World has Hollie tell Kim she can move in with her. It’s not much, hence why i made these exclusives but they are good stories, so check them out. And with that JOIN ME UNDER THE CUT, as we enter Scott’s world once more as he grapples with the past, employment, and saying the L-Word... which might be Lesbians. I don’t know. Find out bellow!

So we open Two Months after Volume 3 with a beach birthday party! Complete with Kim in a swim suit!

But it’s for Julie who lobs a volley ball at Scott’s head when he and Ramona try to make out.

I also dont’ know if “Manfiesting out of all the world’s collectives sorrows” counts as a “birth” necessarily but whatever. I love a good beach story. It’s just a fun setitng for swimming, romance and battling a giant crab with the help of the bird what lives in your backpack.

So after the beach our heroes get dinner and Ramona sweetly calls Scott the nicest guy she’s ever dated. He responds with “That’s sad”. Blunt, but entirely accruate. Julie calls it pathetic and tries to counter Ramona RIGHTFULLY saying “who the hell asked you?” something that really should come after EVERYTHING Julie said with “Back off bitch i’ts my birthday”

So later that night Sex Bomb-Omb has a beach sing along, and I can’t help but notice Neil’s hairy legs.

I mean yes it does make since for a 19 year old to have leg hair, but of all the characters besides Stephen, the ONLY other character we’ve seen it with to give it to, why the character you specifically single out as “Young” it’s just a weird choice I never noticed before.

But anyways Julie has to whine about it because she’s Julie, she can’t stand other people being happy and complains the song...

One of my faviorite moments of the series. Knives puts a nicer spin on it, she’s here too and not over with Neil because, as we’ll find out later they broke up, but she just asks if Knives should be drinking. She shouldn’t but for fucks sake lady she was just trying to talk. I also do like that despite Julie trying to control Ramona’s love life, you know the thing the VILLIANS are doing, Ramona cannot stand her now.. and honestly probably never did.

But Julie, SOMEHOW turns out to be right for once as Kim and Knives have disappeared later that night, and Scott elects to go look for them. Also Ramona says she wants to marry kim while drunk after Julie asks if she does. The throuple is strong with these three... serioulsy that’s my one true pairing for all three now. I mean it ballances out their collective flaws, it’s cute and Ramona is just as into her boyfriends ex as she is her actual boyfriend even when she’s not hamered. Why the fuck not?

Scott instead finds the two making out. I will confess I shipped these two when I was younger.. but I don’t. Not because their gay or anything or because I found another ship for them but because the age gap is still just as wide as it was for Scott. The game did not get this memo and made them a couple which is... ehhhhhhhhh. I mean I wouldn’t mind either being bi, but it just brings up the same problems even if their both hammered. I also question why this scene exists. No really outside of one face punchingly dickish comment from Scott later, this never comes up again and it doesn’t effect Kim’s or Knives character any. Why have this? it’s clearly not fanservice, it’s just a thing that happened. And while Scott Pilgrim as a series does have some of those, as does life and that’s fine.. this is a bit too major, i.e. Kim and Knives, two of the main cast, making out, drunkenly or not, to just.. gloss over you know? I feel Kim would feel majorly guilty for this, as she has the most active moral compass of the main group, and Knives would be massively confused but it’s just.. forgotten because I dunno. In a story that’s otherwise pretty stellar this stands out as an utter waste of potential. I’m not saying have them hook up, gay or not it’s still not better than what Scott did, but have them at least talk about it and have both grow or something from it. Sheesh.

So we cut to.. another day. Maybe the next day I dunno but it’s August. Point is Scott and Wallace are grocery shopping and Wallace notes they can’t get fancy mayo as their barely in budget. I would’ve glossed over this scene... but @panur pointed out back around the Infinite Sadness review that this scene reveals something very intrestng: Scott.. is kind of a fincial burdern to Wallace. Before this while Scott mooched off him it wasn’t all that clear that Wallace was struggling.

But here we notice that outside of some Havarti, it’s just the simplest stuff imaginable: turkey, bread, boxed mac and cheese ramen noodles... it’s nto BAD stuff, I have all of that in my house and it’s good stuff... but it’s not the kind of thing that you need to carefully budget for. Now granted part of this probably is Wallace as he likely spends a LOT on drinks, condoms and two 2 liters of diet soda a day.. but while he really needs to adress his alcohol issues, the rest is fair. He should be allowed to have as much sex and diet coke as he wants it’s his money. Same with the havarti. He earned it if he wants some really delcious cheese with herbs, seriously Havarati is the best, then that’s his bidness. But the rest of the time he’s barely managing to get a basketfull of cheap food.. because he has to provide for Scott. It’s clearly something Scott dosen’t get and something I can relate to not getting. It took me a while to get how hard it is to budget for a full family, let alone two people on one income like Wallace has to. But Wallace is working on a nice job... but still a call center or something. He can’t pay for everything and the finccial stress is about to give as their landlord wants to meet with them. And as we’re about to learn things were even worse than we thought.

Our heroes head home where we get a truly iconic conversation when, over margeritas (again proving my point that while Scott certainly isn’t HELPIGN wallace’s finacials, it’s not all on him)

This will be imporant later.. both the Lesbians part and Scott’s struggle saying it. he tried earlier on the beach but couldn’t get it out and Ramona clearly didn’t want to hear it as she kapt sshhhhing him.. playfully of course but still.

So some time later it’s moving day! Kim is moving into Hollie and Josephs, and Scott, Stephen and Jason are helping. You might be wondeirng who the hell Jason is. He’s Kim’s boyfriend. I do not likes him. Not because he’s kim’s boyfriend, getting upset because a fictional character you fancy is dating is just patently stupid. I’ts like getting upset a celebrity crush is in a relationship: you had no chance anyway why. I wasn’t even bothered as a kid. I don’t really like him.. because he has no real personaliy and no real baring on the plot and I struggle to think why Bryan included him other than for a really annoying plot twist next time, which does not help my liking him knowing what’s coming.

But while our heroes help our heroine move in, and Scott is suprised Hollie is there despite Kim having told him a minute ago she was moving in with her, something I can relate to sadly, we get something vitally plot important; Stephen passes Joseph’s room.. and notices he has a small recording setup in his room. Stephen quickly begs him to record the band’s album and Joseph agrees if only because he finds Stephen hot. Eh i’ve seen better relationships start on less, fair enough. And yes I said relationship more on that in a bit.

So after a brief scene of Scott and Ramona having lunch where Scott fails to know her age and when Ramona says he could just ask.. hea sks and she dosen’t tell, not a bad scene character wise just not very plot important and probably should’ve bene swapped in order with the previous scene, we get to the next day. There’s a heat wave so Wallace orders Scott to go to the mall maybe find a job. He emphasises that.

Instead Scott just sorta bums around thirst but nto having any money.. until an old face shows up.

For those who forgot like Scott has, it’s Lisa Miller from the Volume 2 flashback, the girl who had a crush on Scott and was close friends with him and Kim. After a tackle hug and some panic Scott eventually remembers.... if in a curiously unique and self serving way

At the time this was just hilarous. Now it’s very clear foreshadowing for the big twist in Volume 6. The two catch up while Scott is very clearly attracted to her but very clearly dosen’t want to be, with Lisa wondering where kim is, finding about Ramona, etc, before offering Scott lunch as the two catch up and Scott is very conflicted about how he feels. It’s nice visual stuff as he’s blushing, something more clear in the color version and trying to desperatley sort things out. As for why Lisa’s here she’s moving to the states soon, but is staying with her sister for now.

So after an incdental scene with Wallace we catch up with Knives, who has broken up with Neil. And after some talk about Clash at the Demonhead, Tamra notes Knives apparently put a big x on her shrine of Scott... which baffles Knifves as she sure as hell didn’t do it and is still, sadly, obessed with Scott as ever. Granted Tamra isn’t at all helpful here claiming she did it even when she says she didn’t, is clearly confused and while yes we don’t know who else would care Tams, that just makes it all the more creepy. Stop gaslighting your bestie, she’s already got enoguh issues. She dosen’t need thinking she might have a split personality on top of the stalking, obession over a guy who has no intrest in loving her back, and attempted stabbings. Knives dosesn’t get a ton of focus in this one sadly. She kind of takes a back seat, and while sh’es not GONE from the volumle and someone close to her does impact it, she dosen’t really have any personal progression, negative or positive, like she does in every other volume, a shame since her personal jouney is one of the most intresting of the main cast.

Anyways that night Scott hangs out with Lisa, having not gotten around to telling Ramona she exists yet and plays a game of find the Kim Pine. She goes to Neil’ and Stephen’s place for practice, but finds no one there and Neil being a dick... get used to that it’s going to get about 80 times worse soon enough. Though we do get this classic panel i’ve gotten some use out of

He goes to Kim’s place, but she , Hollie and Satan’s Misterss have all left to Sneaky Dee’s, the local mexican place, for something to eat and Stephen is either high or doing.. something with Joseph.

Yeah i’m not hiding that Stephen turns out to be gay in the final volume or cheating on Bitch and a Half with Joseph. And even if I hate Julie with the power of a frozen sun, I still dont’ think cheating on her is kosher. He could’ve just broken up with her and while part of it was likely confusion, and he could also be bi and not decided which one he wanted to be with, it’s still a dick move.. and later makes him a hypocrite but that’s a rant for next volume.

So our heroes FINALLY find Kim, along with Hollie and Mouthface. And a nice thing I like is that Kim and Lisa are just.. increidbly close, happily catching up and making plans to hang before Lisa leaves, that despite Lisa having feelings for Scott the two ended up as close and She and Scott did and i’ts sweet to see. it’s also just.. rare to see Kim GENUINELY happy. I mean look at her

It’s not like she HASN’T smiled across the series but normally she’s just so miserable, likely because her best friends are a grumbly asshole who forces them to hang out with a raging typhoon of bitchiness, and an insenitive asshat who she never got closure with. This is the first decent human being whose not Ramona or Hollie, and that last one’s not going to last, in a while. It’s genuinely sweet to just see her.. enjoy the moment for once, honestly engaged with someone. Ramona shows up and finally meets Lisa, who apparently was on Degrassi.. I mean she says candaian show no one ever watched, and I watched that plenty but i’d like to think she was on there for a season or two. I liked Degrassi.. I honeslty miss it and think it could use some form of revivial and think porting it to netflix was a smart decision.. what wasn’t so smart was not having the other seasons leading into it on there. Need to watch more of it.

So the next day Ramona stumbles into Scott’s dreams and both are annoyed, with Ramona suggesting he get a job. This finally gets him to try. He asks about Wallace’s work but understandably, he dosen’t really want scott there and asks if he even knows. So Scott sets out to ask his other friends for jobs, while Knives shows up saying she’s “totally not stalking him” but someone is following HER, a mysterious spiky haired dude in a black leather jacket, shades and with a sword on his back. Whu-oh.

He tries Second Cup, with Julie annoyed that Stephen’s recording.. it’s hard to tell if she’s annoyed because she’s a bitch or because Stephen is both gneuinely annoying right now and clearly screwing around behind her back. My take?

But Scott realizes maybe getting a job at his Sister’s place of work who also works with his arch enemy might be stupid and backs out. He next tries Kim’s, but backs out of that too, admitting to kim it’d be stupid and Kim lists off all the reasons (His lack of resume, the fact them working together would be stresful and his ountain of late fees) why that’d be stupid, but in a jovial way. For once i’ts clear that while she’s still taking the piss out of them she isn’t mad at Scott.

In fact she genuinely helps him get a job, taking him to Stephen’s work since hers is dead right now anyway, a vegan place. While Scott naturally compares things to a job system as he’d start as dishwasher while Stephen taught him prep, Scott agrees to genuinely take this seriously and Stephen’s boss decides “eh why not” when he asks her to employ him. Scott is gainfully employed baby! God I miss that. Seriously i’m not pimping my patreon for shits and giggles.

But as he celebrates and Kim wishes she could punch his life in the face, they run into some trouble on the way home: Katana man who slices a motherfucking bus in half and chases them, with Scott reluctnat to fight because he has a sword and Scott does not, which is valid. He does escape though using subspace. He and Kim part awkardly and he returns home to Wallace throwing a party with two intresting charcters, a woman and a man of color, one of the few in the entire work, who are never seen again.

The next night is practice.. or rather recording, and we start to see Neil get edged out, with him unable to come due to exams and clearly not happy about it, and Stephen just kind of ignoring anything he cares about like the dickhead he is. It dosen’t get any better as “recording” ends up just being Scott, Ramona, and Ratfaced Knacker watching bored with Joseph and Stephen work. Eventaully Scott and Ramona decide to get out of there as things are getting tensed between thing one and thing bitch, and leave.. and take Julie with them for some reason.

So the three have dinner with Lisa, Kim, and Jason before The Mummies Curse thankfully leaves. Jason thought they were friends.

We also get this exchange.

I mean.. she is the better option. She his THE option. But before we can get the obvious answer of

Stephen comes in with Knives. He smuggled her in. This leads to problems when Scott returns from the bathroom to find Queen Bitch throwing a bitch fit about him having brought her and screechs at her when she dares to talk to him “How do you even know my name?” Well Ted Cruz, you see when someone is an actually thoughtful and likes other people, they keep track of things about them and don’t constnatly tear them down or assume their partneer is automatically bonking a 17 year old instead of you know, actually forming something of a friendship and not shutting her out sensing she needs this friend group. Some people are not vacous piles of vitriol who care about nothing but themself and seem to go off at the slightest thing.

Scott takes Ramona home but finds a drunken barely awake wallace so no sexy times. Not that he could anyway as the next day is the meeting with Peter their landlord.

Peter reveals they’ll have to clear out by the 27th as their lease was for one year and their paid up.. as in only the first and last month. The two part melacholy knowing this sucks and isn’t a great situation. Then it’s time for Scott to work work, angelica, work work, eliza and peggy. After grueling day, can relate, he runs into a wisp on teh wend and steels himself for a fight.. okay he bitches about it being too hot but it’s Scott. so it’s expected. He does get a hit in on his mysterious persuer.. and that’s when we meet Roxy.

Via boob punch, something Scott’s not proud of but in his defense, as Roxy keeps complaning about it, he was blindly struggling for a hit and din’t know the next Ex, or any of them, were female.. not that Ramona didn’t suggest it loudly enough by empahsising “exes” but scott’s a bit of a fuckwit. She mentions “everyone allways remmebers you”.. which is kind of ominus and tells me she tried to hook back up with ramona despite her having a boyfriend and she rejected her. Still on good terms though. But this confusing encounter ends with Roxy vowing she’ll get him next time gadget, next time.

So we get some assorted slice of life scenes with the band, lisa and what have you as Scott tries to get in touch with Ramona but she keeps avoiding him. THat’s not worrysome at all. And Lisa brings up high school while drunk and clearly hits on Scott. He sidesteps it with her drunkness.. but this clearly isn’t over or going to stop being a problem.

Speaking of problems Wallace makes Scott confront the truth: He either needs to find a new place to live or commit to staying, though Wallace is trying to nudge him toward asking Ramona to move into her place. Scott starts thinking it over, it being very hard especially since, as Stephen points out this was his very first place of his own.. but Stephen also points out these things are temoporary.. right before Scott ducks from katana guy.

At work Scott wonders who it could be, though it turns out Stephen’s met him before, as he’s brought his family in here. So he’s PROBABLY not one of the exes.. but it leaves the question why he wants to cut Scott in half like Dewey Cox’s brother. But it turns out he’s nto the only enemy Scott’s casually running into as Roxy is there too.. with Ramona.

The two talk, clearly about Scott and Lisa with Roxy trying to convince her he’s cheating and Ramona rightfully trusting Scott: while he IS attracted to her, he’s been fighting it every step of the way. Scott storms over to find out what’s going on and while Ramona is more distracted by his new job, she eventually realizes Roxy did attack him and he simply dscribed her poorly when he mentioned the incident over the phone. Scott is confused as he dosen’t get it. Is she with one of the exes what? After some hiinting from both parties, and Roxy rightfully mocking him for not getting the obvious... he finallyg ets it in the grandest way possible.

So Roxy gets ready to fight and Scott can’t because sword, and gets fired in the background as he hides in Ramona’s bag and Ramona prepares to step in. Roxy screams at her for trusting him and defending him when Ramona.. just dosen’t her boyfriend to be bisected by her ex. A fight insues and a damn cool one at that. I honestly wish the movie had taken more from this, but simply didn’t have time leading it to instead be more like the envy fight with a bit of the Winfried Hailey fight from Free Scott Pilgrim.

Roxy chases her and Ramona rightly points out Scott can’t run forever but takes him into Subspace.. where Roxy heads them off, having “taught you everything you know bitch” leading to a cool fight in the wintery version of subspace. Again why THIS wasn’t used instead I have no real idea. We also find out she’s a half ninja but she eventually leaves afer Ramona presses that button.. but Rammy is actually apologetic about it and Roxy’s “I hope you and your 24 children are happy together comment” is telling.

Upon this readthrough of the volume.. I realized Roxy is the most layered and intresting of the exes next to Gideon himself. None of them are out and out terrible, but most of them have pretty simple motives: to kill Scott, ???, profit. Or in Todd’s case to kill scott, bang around and be a dick. But Roxy.. genuinely wants Ramona back. She’s the ONLY one who does: Gideon kinda does, but only in the sense that he wants her for his collection. But Roxy geninely still loves her, admitting so during this fight. And it’s not like she has no chance: out of the 7 exes she’s the ONLY one who parted with Ramona on anything resembling good terms. While intrestingly we don’t find out WHY they broke up, Ramona didn’t cheat on her like she did everyone else she was with. The two have coffee and hang out and Ramona geninely dosen’t even consider until Roxy tries to attack Scott that she’d really try killing him and tries her best to talk her out of it. But what holds Roxy back is her anger: She’s so bitter about the fact Ramona is bi or pan, so dedicated to viewing Ramona’s very orintation as a betryal (though Ramona calling it a phase dosen’t help and the movie RIGHTLY has Roxie comment on it and fly into a rage over it), and so driven to make sure the woman she loves dosen’t get hurt again that it blinds her to the fact Ramona dosen’t love her the same way anymore, and that while Scott is objectively a dick, and a cheater, and a greasy buttcrack pooflap, he is not a terrible person. A meh one sure, but he’s got good to him. She’s so biophobic she simply can’t see he’s a harmless moron.. well harmless to Ramona even with the cheating. He’s killed two people at this point and will kill again. Also she apparently has issues with only being a half ninja but this is never adressed. Point is Roxy’s really grown on me and is now probably my faviorite ex.

Scott and Ramona talk it over on their way to Sneaky Dees and Scott finally asks to move in and gets a yes. His response is downright adorable.

So at Sneaky Dee’s Young Neil is just a bit absolutely irate with Scott.. which isn’t fair as them not playing things is entirely on the blocky face asshole. Yell at him.. which he does, pointing out that they haven’t played shows in forever, and that the lady who owns Sneaky Dees not only runs shows, in the upstairs space, but has been asking them to play. Kim is rightly curious about this and to both Stephen just keeps saying “We’re recording right now.” And some of you may of wondered why I hate him. Well while he’s not exctly stellar in the first half in the second Stephen becomes goddman insufferable, slowly destroying the band for his affair and not giving one iota of a shit what anyone else wants. He’s a selfish, egomanical cheating prick. And yes I get it their recording an album.. but doing live shows would give them extra practice, MONEY, even if likely not a lot and exposure for said album. I get professoinal bands stop touring for a bit to do an album but you are not a professional band, and said bands still often iron out the album on the road. God you suck.

But while Scott sidesteps this argument he walks into another where Ramona confronts him about lisa about liking her.. and he rightly says if there was anything, which there was not it’s in the past. And while yes he is a cheater, she does not know this yet. This plot honestly would’ve worked better if she learned about the knives thing sooner, but instead she just comes off as paranoid for listening to Roxy about something that isn’t happening. Yes Scott’s been shown to be attracted to her.. but he’s been ashamed of it, fighting it and in denial about it, and is clealry all in with Ramona. Being attracted to someone else on a phsyical level does NOT mean your relationship is doomed.

Things get worse as he goes home to ruminate.. and instead sees a man’s Penis. And Wallace..is at his second most unsymapthetic, not letting Scott get a shirt or a bus pass or something like a decent human being for no goddamn reason. Usually when Wallace is a dick to Scott, Scott’s earned it and badly needs a slap in the face. Here he’s just being a prick because.. the plot needs him to? I dunno it dosen’t work for me. It’s in character, I just don’t have to like it.

So with no other options.. Scott ends up at Lisa’s. And so we get the last temptation of Scott. Lisa admits, embarassed that she’s been wearing sexy dresses and what not specifically to attract him, with Scott also mentioning how things are rough, Lisa tries to fight it herself pointing out he’s with ramona.. and when Scott points out they didn’t do anything in the past Lisa points out they should’ve.. and maybe they should now.

We fade to black as Scott ends up in a dream and finds Roxy, who naturally has the same skill and tries to Freddy Kruger him before he wakes. He finds Lisa but they didn’t do anything: Scott pushed her away and babbled about how much he loved Ramona instead. As i’ve said.... his heart was never with LIsa... and even when he was so close to giving in he couldn’t. It’s a tangible sign of growth: He screwed around on Knives with Ramona, and given how bad things were getting with Ramona, it would be oh so easy to once again ditch a relationship the minute he found something else and oh so understandable. But... he dosen’t. He loves Ramona even if he hasn’t said it, he wants to make this work, and he’s changed. She’s changed him. He’s not quite a good man yet.. bu he’s getting to be good enough. Love turned him from a skeezy dumbass into a far more loveable dumbass. Ramona’s gotten him to stop dating a teenager (even if again he cheated), face his past with envy to finally move on and now get a job. He’s realized just hwo much she means to his life and world and so he goes to tell her.

Riggghtttt after going to get his job back and works a shift, with steven wanting to punch his life in the balls. Stephen shut the fuck up. Just because Scott is lucky and your stuck dating satan’s scrotum does not mean you get to punch his life int he balls. Kim does, because he’s put her through more shit but not you.

He goes to second cup to talk to Stacey.. only to end up at the wrong one where Knives also now has a job... and we finally get an answer to who the mystery katana guy is...

Yup turns out wielding giant weapons in vengance runs in the family. As for how he knows about Scott her aunt mentioned her boyfriend, everyone freaked out and obviously while her mom was mentioned as knowing in volume 1, they did not tell her dad whose brain turned into an engine of vengance and defaced the shrine. While part of it is apparnetly racisim for Scott being white the fact is he clearly saw Scott’s photograph. The guy is 5 years older. I get him being protective. Still dosen’t justify cutting off his head. His balls maybe but not his head.

And then Scott ran, once agian finding a subspace entracne.. and this time we see inside ramona’s head and well...

Yeah.. that’s.. kind of fucked, and Ramona isn’t happy scott saw that, though she backs down once Scott explains..a nd then gets upset over him staying at Lisa’s but before SCott can tell her he loves her it turns out Roxy stayed over. So yeah, Ramona might of cheated, she tells him to alk it off and he runs around in a psycadelic haze of emtoinal confusion. And meets.. someone new...

Scott snaps out of his funk and ignores his doppleganger heading back for Ramona... whose fighting Mr. Chau. Scott left the door to Ramona’s head open and he followed him through Subspace. Scott lures him into the house and away from her only to run into Roxy. This leads to both of his attackers fighting and her wondering if Gideons ent him “Why does no one ever belivie in me?!”

She soon realize no i’ts just unrelated and calls Scotto ut on hiding behind not having a sword and behind her being a woman, caling it a flimsy excuse. I mean she’s tring to kil lhim. It’s okay to hit an enemy combatant. Scott realizes he has to stop running... and get real with ramona leading to a truly epic, romantic and heartfelt speech and given how far he’s come and just how heartfelt it is it’s a real sign of how deep he feels. Sure we’ve seen genuine chemstiry between the two.. but htis moment is a shit.. from a simple relationship.. into true love.

I may of only had a few but Relationships are not easy, They take work, they take time, they take patience and theyt ake love.. but if your willing to work with someone, look past some flaws and help them with the rest.. then it’s worth it. And Scott has finally realized it and for the first time in a while is running TOWARDS something difficult, actually working on this relationship and talking with his partner instead of running finding someone else or wallowing. He’s truly grown up. While he still has miles to go.. he’s taken about 50 steps forward with this. And as such given the kind of unvierse we’re in, as Ramona is genuinely touched by it he levels up a glowing sword with a heart shaped hilt coming out of his chest.. and realizing what’s happening he pulls it out....

So Scott faces off with roxy and in an awesomly short battle, their sords clash.. and he bisects her.

Scott then honestly talks down Mr Chau who leaves after a nod, and Ramona tells Scott she loves him two. The two make out and all is well.

One make out fades into another, as we cut to Scott moving in with Kim and Blockhead’s help. Well kinda they only had one box but they owed him one. He and wallace comiserate over the end of their time as roomies. They’ll always be friend but it’s truly the end of an era. Also Wallace gets off another bit of dickery as he’’s very glad it all worked out for scott...

Now there’s the Wallace I know and love. Dickish but just the right loveable kind of douchebag with that swagger.

Back at Knives house she’s apparenlty into somebody though who I have no idea, Mr Chau give sher his blessing and she.. apparenlty doesen’t know chinese. I dunno. As I said her subplot this go round was her weakest overall.

And so we end with the whole gang gathered to see Lisa off. It’s a REALLY nice shot, and one of the only times Wallace is seen with the Sex Bomb omb side of the group. Oh sure he goes to their shows and what not, but generally their never in the same vincinity so while there’s no interaction I still find this neat. Seriously the whole main cast is there, it’s a really lovely shot

Also Jason and Hollie.. who are getting awfully chummy. Whu Oh. And of course Craphole and Mouth Face are as likeable as ever.

So we jsut get a genuinely nice sene. Except Stephen and Julie reconciling. Fuck that. Please move on. And as everyone fondly wishes Lisa adeu and wish she stuck arond the res tof the series we end on Scott and Ramona snuggling, Scott asking her her birthday and finding out she’s 24, and they both will be come september. Scott wishes this moment could last.

They probperly snuggle as the volume ends on a high.

Final Thoughts:

Yeah.. Gets it Together is, on rexamination, DEFINTELY my faviorite of the 6. Besides personal value i’ts hte best contained story, contaning lots of character development, great character moments, jokes, and EASILY the best art so far, with goregouness and creativty abounding.

There is a problem here or there: Stephen and Julie’s subplot feels underbaked, and not just because I hates them, and there are several scenes that don’t further plot or character stuff. Ther’es also stuff that could’ve been expanded on.. but given this is still a pretty meaty graphic novel, it’s understandable why it wasn’t.. though it is why I’d love a streaming series since while the movie is excellent, a full series could expand on stuff from the books more Brian simply didn’t have time for. Knives also didn’t get a lot to do.

But their drowned out by tons of great decisions: Lisa was a wonderful additoin to the cast and I genuinely wish she’d stuck around, adding in some energy, blending well with the Sex Bomb Omb crowd, and having great dynamics with everyone and her arc with Scott is heartbreaking,knowing she can’t have him but wanting him anyway having never gottne proper closure on the man she’s always wanted. She’s a heartbreaking character and its nice to see her end in a decent place and on good terms with Scott, having let him go for both thier sakes.

And while Lisa is a highlight everyone is on their a game here for the most part apart from knives, girl hitler, and captain dumbass: Scott grows signfigantly but is funny as hell, Wallace has an intresting arc trying to nudge Scott out without being overt about it, scared to really confront him, Kim is in a happy and serene place for once and it shows. The villians are also intresting: While Mr Chau is a tad underbaked, he’s sitll a cool imposing presence. I do think he shoudl’ve had more to do with the plot.. but is still just so freaking cool it papers over that and him just.. disappearing after this like poor Lisa.

Roxy is far more intresting, having clearly more going on than we see and while I wish we’d got her backstory, she’s easily the most engaging of the exes, being the only one to actively compete with Scott (All her and ramona end up doing is making out a little it turned out), and have bigger stakes than just “The glasses wearing douche asked me to beat up my exes boyfriend and I was like alright.

All in all Gets it Together is really magical, the series high point, and just damn fun and it was a pleasure to go through

Next Month on Scott Pilgrim: It all falls down as we take a look into what once was my least faviorite Album, vs the unvierse. Two perfect assholes try and murder scott with Robutts, his relationship and band crumble and things get sad so very very sad.

Next on this blog: More LIlo and Stitch! The Proud Family come to Kauai and get into a fight with our heroes. Also wizard kelly... who if nothing else is now far more tolerable now i’ve had to spend another volume with the wicked bitch of the west. Touche universe touche. See you at the next rainbow.

#scott pilgrim #ramona flowers #wallace wells #roxanne richter #knives chau #stephen stills #julie power #mr chau #stacey pilgrim #neil nordgraf #young neil #comics #oni press #scotrospective #lisa miller #kim pine #jospeh

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dragon-prodigy · 4 years

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Comical Meet Cute || Darlong

Haley had been reorganizing the Manga section of the store. It seemed like there had been some confusion on whether to go alphabetically by author or alphabetically by series so everything was sort of in a strange alphabetical mess. A lot of organized chaos, but at least it was an attempt from the clerks, which was more than Haley could say a year and a half ago when she started working a couple afternoons here.

She had just finished through the Shojo section when she saw a boy she hadn’t seen before in the shop. And well, he was really cute. Sometimes they got boys from NTO into the shop but that wasn’t very often and honestly, she didn’t know what it was about him but he was just kind of different as she looked him over. She then realized she was looking him over and she blushed, scrambling to duck around the corner of the shelves and take a deep breath to calm herself. She did not need to pop some ears over a boy she thought was cute in the middle of the Comic Barn.

She peaked around the corner again and he was gone. She furrowed her brows and tried to look over the shelves again to spot him. Did she imagine him? Focus Haley, you’re on the job. Get your shit together. She grabbed her stack of manga again and turned around the corner and as luck would have it, walked directly into the newcomer. With her fast reflexes she managed to push the paperback volumes in between herself and the shelf. “Ah! I’m so sorry, I totally didn’t see you!” She tries to juggle the books from one hand to the other and not mess up the manga already on the shelves. “Um, I’m sorry, did you need uh, help or something?”

God, this was so not smooth.

And he was even cuter up close.

@lost-darling-danny

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Well we have a trailer folks... and it has left me terrified. In a good way. I have been hyped for volumes before, but MAN this kind of hope has me on edge. We know that we’re in for something massive, and I am afraid yet excited! The volume is planned to start November 7th (with possible changes) so we’ve got plenty of time to speculate. SO let us see what the trailer gave us and do some fun speculation about what may be happening. Remember, this is for fun.

We see Salem on a throne... and from how it looks, she may be inside the whale. You can see the teeth. Just to further this, here is a pic form a later point int he trailer.

Yeah. I guess she could be on top of it though, but I’m assuming inside and the Whale Grimm is like some kind of transport Grimm. We;ll talk more about the Relic later, though it does confirm at least to me that indeed Cinder will give it to her and it’ll put her back into Salem’s good graces. We’ll also talk about Cinder when we get to The Relic.

Over this, we hear Ruby talking. Salem is no longer hiding. Once she is done with Atlas she will turn tot he rest of Remnant. It sounds like Ruby is reasoning that they have to warn the rest of the Kingdoms. This could lead to them maybe trying to find a way to take control of Amity and finish it to restore communications. But... I also have another plausible theory.

Over the next few clips, we hear Ren and Nora talking. Ren is arguing that Mantle still needs them right this second, while Nora is arguing that the rest of the world is in danger. It sounds like the big conflict within the team si whether they remain to protect Mantle, or the rest of the world. Aka... whether they should abandon Mantle or not... just like they just fought with Ironwood about last volume... IDK though. I can’t see Nora doing that after how adament she was about Mantle last volume. It could just be them arguing on how to handle the two situations. But I do sense Renora drama incoming.

These likely all take place int he episode we already got sneak peaks for. My guess is that it’s probably episode 3-6. So we know that Yang, Jaune, Ren, and Oscar seem to be moving civilians and getting supplies. But what about Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Nora, and Penny?

It looks like they are up in Atlas. This might confirm my theory that they’re trying to get Amity running. Or it could be them trying to find Qrow and Robyn. Not sure. If I had to guess who they’re raising their weapons at, probably Ace Ops. I’ll talk about them later. Penny looks very taken aback, so if whoever the nemy is knows about Penny being the Maiden... yeah... nto good. But I am excited to see how Team RWBNP kick butt~

I imagine that Team YJRO and RWBNP will be happening int he same episode, or back to back episodes. If it’s the latter, the following scenes I believe will also be in the same episode as the previous image.

Chances are, Penny for whatever reason is reluctant to fight But some kind of ugly turn happens and she’s forced to go into Maiden mode. But it upsets her, and is why Ruby is hugging her. What would provoke it? Maybe something happened to Pietro. Maybe Ruby’s life was in danger. Maybe Ironwood appeared and said something to piss Penny off (like how she is meant to work for him, aka trying to reestablish his control). IDK. Either way, Penny’s gonna have a rough time.

Speaking of Ironwood...

He’s gotten a new prosthetic. This time black instead of grey. At this point, the only thing that’s still flesh that we know of is his head and like... one shoulder. The man is losing his humanity more and more, throwing away his heart. But you can also see Ace-Ops in another room. I am for certain that they are int here with Clover’s corpse. No, I don’t believe that Clover is coming back. Penny is the only dead character to return, and they explained hwy. Clover is dead people. I’m sorry, but he is. But it IS going to leave an impact...

We hear Ironwood get angry about one of his men (we don’t know who, but I am guessing Marrow) show concern about Mantle. It’s clear that Ironwood has deemed the city a lost cause and he could care less about it. Thus, his soldiers also have to not care about it. Harriet, Elm, and Vine look stoic... but something about Marrows expression to me conveys some sadness. Maybe it’s me hoping that he’s still going to have a change of heart since imo, he is still the most likely and has the best chance. I think that Clover’s death could push that, and maybe even the others even if they don’t want to say it. Or it could lead to their demise since it may just make them hate out heroes more. We can only wait and see.

So finally, we come to the end of the video:

We hear Salem say that she has questions for the lamp... but she needs to find the one who can show her how. So it looks like Salem knows what the Relics can do, but not how to make them work. Interesting. So we see her hold the Relic to a Grimm. Now there’s been a lot of speculation about someone in the heroes getting kidnapped, mainly either Ruby or Oscar. After seeing this and going under the assumption hat this is some kind of hunter Grimm that can sniff anything out... I believe it’s going to be Oscar. Aside form Neo and Cinder, Oscar was the last to have the Relic for a long period of time. Also Cinder knows that Oscar houses Ozpin, which if she tells Salem will likely make her want him found even more.

But I also doubt that Salem would send a Grimm alone to take Oscar. Especially if there are others there that can kill it. SO, let’s see... who would be a perfect person to send after the kid? I can't say for sure, Tyrian would probably be a good candidate. But if I can put forth another candidate...

Yeah, this may be Cinder's plot for the volume. Going after Oscar. I can absolutely be wrong, but IDT it’s implausible. She’s back in Salem’s good graces, so she’s either going to try and stay in it or eventually try to do her own thing again... you know,t he exact thing that got her into trouble to begin with. What'll his mean for Neo? FOr Emerald and Mercury if they appear? IDK. But I get the feeling that unlike the past few volumes, Cinder will score some kind of victory. Whether it be capture Oscar... or face down a certain little red. Eye for an eye, after all...

Anyways,t hat’s all we’ve got! Hopefully we may get osme more sneak peaks before November. IDK if they’re doing NYCC this year, but if so we may get more there. Regardless, the hype is real people. Gt ready if you want, but none of us will be ready for the chaos ahead.

#rwby #rwby8 #rwby spoilers

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undermounts · 6 years

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Memories

Summary: Julian is left alone with the memories of someone long gone and the knife of letting go

Pre-game, JulianxApprentice

Memories are tricky things. They come and go as they please, and stick around for days, lingering on the edge of the subconscious. They can be distracting, food for thought and the sustenance of daydreams...

Julian stared up at the cracked stone ceiling of his office beneath the palace. He had been working late in the lab and decided to spare himself the exhaustion of travelling home or to his other room at his clinic for the night, but it was all for naught. It was some ungodly hour of the morning, and he couldn’t sleep. His mind was alive with memories, far too numerous and important to force away.

Julian knew he would never forget their first night together, how wondrous and magical it was. How sweet it had been to find solace in her embrace, to feel their hearts beating together between bare chests. Oh, Cassandra…

Julian knew that whatever it was that had grown between them had been rushed along by desperation and hopelessness—the city and people around them were dying, and they could do nothing to stop it—but somehow, that made it all the more special to him.

The moment Julian took Cassandra on as his apprentice...Oh, he knew from the start that he was a goner. From the beginning, Cassandra had been a bright light in his world, something that never stopped moving forward; before he knew it, Ilya was swept up in her current, hurtling towards something he could not yet see, filled with devotion to a place without shape and burning feelings with no name.

There were many memories he cherished with her, all of them full of warm laughter and light hearts, even up to the very end…

Julian could still see her clearly in his mind’s eye, leaning against the doorframe of his office at the clinic. Cassandra was still dressed in her uniform, although the collar of her waistcoat had been undone and her sleeves were pushed up to his elbows.

No, not this one, Julian thought as he tossed in his cot, pressing his threadbare pillow into his face as if to smother the image, but it was no use. The memory of Cassandra was still burned into the backs of his eyes, illuminated by the candlelight.

...That was the other thing about memories. You can’t control the ones that stir in your head, no matter how much you wish to forget them.

There was nothing sour about this memory, nothing tragic or heartbreaking. It was a good one. In fact, it was the last good one, which was why Julian could no longer stand it.

“That’s the last one for tonight,” Cassandra said, her soft voice carrying from the doorway, melodious in Julian’s ears. There was the soft tinkle of the bell at the clinic front door and then the sound of footsteps that eventually faded away, too.

The doctor looked up from the records laid out across his desk, auburn curls spilling into his eyes for a second before his fingers were there to brush them back. “No signs of the plague today?”

She shook her head, a small crease in her brow. Julian wanted to smooth it away. “No.”

“Hm. I doubt it’s because it’s going away—I mean, the numbers have only been growing. Exponentially.” Julian sighed, peering down at a small slip of paper Cassandra had given him the day before, a report on the plague victims.

“So either they’re growing too weak to seek help or to hopeless to try,” Cassandra filled in the gaps, nodding to herself as she tucked a strand of her wily sapphire hair behind her ear.

“That’s dour, especially for you, lovebird,” Julian frowned, squinting at his apprentice as if he could see the light around her dim by a fraction. “Come here, come here.”

He beckoned her forth with his ungloved hands, resting them over her knees as she perched at the edge of his desk.

“Everything is going to be alright,” Julian promised her, resting his cheek against her thigh and peering up at her with those gray eyes, owlish but endearing in the candlelight. “You’re working on the plague, and so am I. We’ll find the cure in no time, with our minds combined.”

“But Jules—“

Julian squeezed her knee gently before taking her hand. “No ‘but.’ You can’t start giving up on me now, Cassie. If you lose hope, I’m a goner.”

Cassandra opened her mouth to protest, but the words died on her lips, a small smile taking their place instead. Julian had told her once, many nights ago as they laid together in a heap of tangled limbs on his cramped cot, what she meant to him. She had laughed when he had told her about about being a bright light, but sobered when he admitted how important that was in a world as dark as theirs.

“You’re right,” Cassandra relented, leaning back on one hand as she combed the other through his auburn locks. “The plague won’t cure itself, especially if I just sit and whine.”

Julian’s eyes drifted shut as he reveled in the divine feeling of her fingers in his hair and the warmth of her skin against his cheek. He turned his head nto her, his lips pressing against her thigh. The world outside was dying, but in moments of calm like these, he could almost pretend that things were different and everything was alright. Julian wished they could stay like this forever.

“You leave tomorrow.” It wasn’t a question. “For the palace.”

Julian raised his head from her leg, her hand slipping from his hair. Cassandra wasn’t frowning, but he could tell she wasn’t exactly delighted. She never said so, but Julian knew she hated it when he left to research with the Quaestor, almost as much as he hated leaving her at the clinic.

“Only for a few nights. Then you can have me back in your arms. Or under them. However you please.” He was teasing, brow arched and an incorrigible smile on his face. Cassandra’s lip quirked up and she shoved him lightly before moving to stretch out on his cot beside the desk.

“I’ll miss you, you know.”

“And I, you.” Julian’s smile softened and he moved to lay beside her, his hand immediately finding the small of her back. “You know, you can close up the clinic while I’m gone. Take a few days off. I know the people have missed your shop. And your readings.”

Cassandra’s brow creased again, but this time, Julian’s thumb was there to smooth the skin over. She leaned into his touch almost instantly and he felt something flutter in his chest. It was little acts like this that had shown how familiar he had become to her, and he wanted nothing more than to be someone she felt at home around.

“The shop was one thing, but I can’t leave the clinic.” Cassandra looked down at her hands and a soft blue glow began to emanate from her palms, illuminating the shallow space between them. Immediately, Julian could feel the soothing effects of her magic, the aches and pains of his tense body fading away. “This is where I’m useful. I have to help.”

Julian bit his lip. He knew she spoke the truth—she wanted to help people; she became his apprentice so that she could try her hand at saving the people who suffered. But at some point during her time at the clinic, she had began to stay in her office, avoiding the shop and her home. Late one night at the Rowdy Raven, she had let loose a sliver of information as to why she kept away...something about a disagreement, a lost love that slipped away, and how that home never felt the same afterwards.

“Are you sure you just aren’t ready to go home yet?” Julian murmured, voice tentative. He didn’t want to push lest she withdraw from him.

To his relief, Cassandra wasn’t angry—she never was with him. Instead, she just seemed...resigned. “There’s nothing there for me, anymore, Jules. The clinic is all I have.”

Julian kissed her temple tenderly. “Not all you have.”

She looked up at him, golden eyes sparkling as her lips split into a smile. “No. Not all.”

Kissing Cassandra was as easy as, well, a lot of things. It was easier than charting maps or dissecting cow hearts...but that was beside the point. Kissing Cassandra was natural. Being with her had quickly become second nature to him. So as Julian held her that night and let his second nature take over, he was completely and utterly at peace.

It has been months since that night, and he has never felt the same.

That was the last good night.

When Julian had returned… well, Cassandra wasn’t the same as how he’d left her.

Golden eyes in a sea of crimson. Pale skin and trembling lips. I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry...

Julian cast the memory aside, or at least did his best to. His heart seized painfully and he clutched uselessly at his chest, fingernails scabbing at his cool skin. That last night...if he had known what would have happened...he never would have left Cassandra to go to the palace. Perhaps if he had stayed…

No. It was useless to think like this, to dwell on the past. He had to keep looking forward. It was what she would have wanted him to do.

But still...sometimes it was just too hard. With the memories of her constantly plaguing his mind, it was difficult to imagine going forward. How ironic, Julian thought bitterly, glaring at the ceiling above him. The one who had always wanted him to move forward was the one who held him back, even from beyond the grave.

“Sometimes,” Julian whispered into dark room, clutching his pillow to his chest. “I just wish I could forget, Cassandra. Forget it all. Maybe then I could live the way you wanted.”

But as soon as the words had left his lips did Julian regret them, tears stinging the backs of his eyes. How awful of him to say such a thing—of course he didn’t want to forget her. How could he even think that? And after all she had done for him...all of the happiness he had found with her...It was wrong to wish any of that away, no matter how much it hurt.

“Maybe this is what I deserve,” he murmured, turning on his side as his fingers tugged at his hair. “I deserve to hurt like this. I left you...How could I leave you when you needed me most?”

Julian questions fell on deaf ears. The only one who would have listened—the only one he wanted to hear him—was long gone. And he missed her, desperately. The memories may have hurt and kept him awake at night, but at least they kept Cassandra alive, even if it was only in his head. She was gone, but he couldn’t lose her.

“I don’t want to forget you, Cassandra…” Julian rasped and squeezed his eyes shut, calling upon some memory of her, any memory. He thought of her smiling at him as she lay beside him, cheek cradled by his pillow. He thought of her curiously looking on as he treated patients, taking notes. He thought of her seated across from him at the Rowdy Raven, chin in her hand in a debonair pose as she went against him, drink for drink as they swapped stories of their youth. He thought of her, conjuring up as many images of her as he could until eventually, something began to seem off.

The tiny scar below Cassandra’s eyebrow, was it on the left side of her face, or the right? And which eye did she close when she winked? The memories he dredged up of her had become muddled slightly, as if he were looking at her in a hazy reflection. The details of her face no longer rearranged themself in the right way and panic flared up in Julian’s chest as he tried again and again to remember her perfectly until the memory of her slipped away altogether.

No. No, no, no.

He was starting to lose her. To forget her.

“Cassandra, no.” It fell from his lips like a plea, but there was no one that could help him now. The memories swirled and blurred together until all he was left with was a whisper of her memory and a hollowness in his chest that flared up in pain with every sob that burst from his lips.

Memories, tricky things they are. They come and go as they please.

And sometimes, without meaning to, they slip away forever.

#um? why was this so angsty?#i had something completely different in mind #uh oh well #julian #julian devorak #jules #julian x apprentice #fan apprentice #fan apprentice cassandra #the arcana #the arcana game #my writing

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itsa_longstory: Since high school is basically over, I guess a break is in order. (And yes, this is me being relaxed 🤪)

0 notes • Posted 2021-03-06 04:51:51 GMT

Vanessa’s Birthday Gift

(Left in her dorm room wrapped in a very neat red package with black ribbon, with a letter tucked into the ribbon)

@vanecessary-conditions

Hey Vanessa! Happy Birthday (I know I already said it and texted you today or whatever but I’m gonna say it again).

Basically, I had this idea because you were super into like fire and I know you like spiders that I’d get you something that could combine both. I was kind of looking around and found online this guy who casts various animal pendants and stuff out of silver and other metals and asked if he’d do a spider.

I know it’s not a likeness of your favorite pet because it’s not a Tarantula but you know artistic differences (-insert eye roll emoji-).

Anyways, I met up with him and basically asked if instead of using a forge to heat up the silver in the casting process before it was dumped, I could just like use my own fire and melt it so you’ve got your very own Haley Long Dragon breath silver spider pendant. (And I know how much you’re into like your leather choker type necklaces so I opted for a leather cord.).

So, I hope you like your gift and it’s not like totally lame or whatever haha

Happy Birthday again!

Haley

1 notes • Posted 2021-06-16 03:13:31 GMT

Comical Meet Cute || Darlong

God, this was so not smooth.

And he was even cuter up close.

@lost-darling-danny

6 notes • Posted 2021-01-15 13:00:50 GMT

Galactic Gaming || Darlong

So, Haley and Danny had been getting along pretty well. They went to that one character creation session and then Wendy showed up and laid out their Strahd game. Haley was really getting into everything and she figured maybe she should like start up a precedent or something for after the games. Finish the session and then go hang out at Pizza Planet with Danny.

She’d honestly fumbled it a little bit after the game, asking if he was hungry and still wanted to game or something ridiculous like that. Then she said the slogan of Pizza Planet to which she was sure he probably thought she was going through something because who says where the slice is out of this world in actual conversation.

In any case, Danny had agreed to come and hang out so they struck out to Pizza Planet, which was only like a 2 minute walk from the Comic Barn. She pulled open the door and was immediately hit with the smell of pizza and the loud noises of games firing off and tickets and tokens being counted.

She walked over to the counter to order so they could put in their order and get it delivered to their table. She was greeted with the usual Pizza Planet delivery guy. Did they have other employees? The college aged kid, pizza planet hat on his head backwards just grinned in his lazy sort of way, “Yooo Outerspacers, welcome to Pizza Planet where the slice is out of this world. How are we today? We’re running our Supernova special. One large pizza, 50 tokens and a choice of a milkyway shake or the Alien Space Slime fountain bevy, all for 19.99. Modifications and toppings are extra but yanno, totally worth it for an out of this world experience.”

Haley looked over to Danny, “That sounds like a pretty good deal actually, did you want to split that? Maybe get some Cosmic Cookies too?”

@lost-darling-danny

12 notes • Posted 2021-04-12 23:19:25 GMT

Thermodynamics || Entropy

So, Haley was feeling pretty good about her friendship status with Vanessa. There was probably flirting but Haley could handle it better now. They just sort of talked constantly about magic and Dragon training and mathematical and scientific discoveries.

Really they were kind of two giant nerds.

Well, Haley was kind of just nerd, Vanessa had this like edge to her that Haley knew she definitely didn’t have and maybe that’s why she was so drawn to her. She sort of got into her friendship and strange prom date thing with Ashley that way though so she was being careful not to like completely drink the Kool-Aid on Vanessa and her uni friends.

In any case, Haley felt it was kind of about time to show off a little bit and finally give Vanessa the thing she’d been hinting at all this time. A full Dragon transformation. It was sort of weird. Honestly it was kind of like getting naked for someone. Not that she’d like know about that but it was... revealing. And a little intimate seeming even though she and Jake had like been transforming in front of people their whole lives and no one blinked twice in NYC.

The sun was lower in the sky as Haley led V out to where she usually transformed when she wasn’t in a hurry. It was a nice clearing. Quiet. You could center yourself and focus. Meditate even. But it was sort of deep into Enchantra and she was very careful to make sure that this was allowed (even if she was a Dragon and like kind of had a deal with the fairies in that sort of way).

“I promise I’m not luring you this far deep into the woods to kill you or anything.” Haley chuckled a bit, leaping over a fallen tree in the path easily and turning back to Vanessa, “I just kind of like my solitude when I can help it with the transformation. Kind of prevents me from half-changing and ending up with like human legs on a full Dragon.”

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